A modern book of esthetics: an anthology

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Pagina 101A man suffers, expressing his sufferings by groans and spasms, and this suffering
transmits itself to other people; a man expresses his feeling of admiration,
devotion, fear, respect or love to certain objects, persons, or phenomena, and
others ...

Pagina 190But, on the other hand, just because laughter aims at correcting, it is expedient
that the correction should reach as great a number of persons as possible. This is
the reason comic observation instinctively proceeds to what is general. It chooses
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Pagina 325In the practice, therefore, of the average person, a limit does exist which marks
the minimum at which his appreciation can maintain itself in the esthetic field, and
this average minimum lies considerably higher than the Distance-limit of the artist
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